Solved Mic recommendations

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Just recording a demo on my Tascam 424 mkIII and my shitty tascam mic has alot of noise. I need a recommendation for a good dynamic mic $100-150 that works well with this machine and has no noise. Thanks.
 
You may want to try out the Shure SM58, AKG D5, AKG D770 and Shure Beta 58A , try these microphones out and see which produces the best sound for your voice and electric bass.

Oh yes, and if you're thinking: Why not the Shure SM57 instead? I believe the Shure SM58 is the SM57 WITH a head shell, so just take it off and you'll probably get the same results as the Shure SM57, so its a win-win situation.
 
Wow what a coincidence. I had some free time so I went to my local music shop and he recommended the Shure SM57 so I bought it before I even had a chance to check the replies on this thread. Yay! I will test it now and tell you if it fixes my noise problem I had with my crappy tascam mic. Thanks.
 
Everyone needs a 57 in their microphone locker.

Now go out there and get an Elecro-voice N/D767a!!!!! :D
 
Could have been worse. He could have said Jehovah.


OUCH! Alright! Who threw that rock?
 
STOP IT! STOP IT! STOP IT RIGHT NOW! STOP IT! All right, no one is to stone anyone until I blow this whistle. Even... and I want to make this absolutely clear... even if they do say, Jehovah.
 
John Willett said:
Do they? I haven't got one.
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Me either. I have a 565SD, though, which is close to a 58. I can't say I use it much, though (or any moving-coil dynamic, for that matter).

Unless you're using a cheap, battery-powered electret condenser mic, 99% of the time, noise problems are the fault of the preamp, not the mic. The hotter you have to crank the preamp to get a decent level out of the mic, the more noise the preamp adds. Dynamic mics require lots of gain, so if your preamp isn't great, you're gonna get a lot of noise. Moving to a condenser mic (which typically has a much hotter output than a dynamic) will usually reduce the noise floor considerably.

Of course, that's not universal. I've worked with some condenser mics that have so much self noise that they're a pain in the backside to deal with. YMMV. Thus far, the ones I have encountered all fall into the "cheap, battery-powered electret condenser" category, though. :)

Either way, if you're getting noise on a dynamic mic, it is almost always caused by a noisy preamp. I mean yes, ostensibly, it could be made worse by a cheap dynamic having an unusually low output level, causing you to have to crank the preamp gain higher, but ultimately the preamp is what's adding the noise, and getting a better preamp will probably make a much bigger difference than changing microphones.
 
moresound said:
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Dogbreath said:
SACRILEGE!

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Armistice said:
He's a witch. Burn him!
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The 57 is a heavy duty stage mic. really and I don't do that sort of thing.

I record, so most of my mics are £1,000+ condensers.

My dynamic mics are: 2 x Beyer M67n (look a bit like the Shure 57, but much better :thumbs up:) Sennheiser MD 421, Sennheiser MD 441 and AKG D12 - the rest of my mics are mainly high quality SDCs (Sennheiser, Neumann and Gefell, plus a couple of Calrecs and an AKG).
 
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